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Chicago examiner price one cent delivered by carrier 30 cents per month vol vii no 283 a m tuesday november 16 16 pages wayman asked to act in city graft by citizens association charges filed with state's attorney and the merriam committee probe for all purchases friends of administration in nearly all the concerns sell ing to municipality following the charge by the citizens association that the price of castings had been increased to the city by nearly 83 per cent since the t a cummings foun dry company came to be recognized as the favored concern for the sale of such materials to the city and that the com pany reaped amazingly high profits in consequence of its monopoly demand for every paper and voucher touching on the connection of the cummings company with the city was made on the city pur chasing agent william a coleman and on city comptroller wilson by the mer riim commission yesterday when the commission reconvenes to morrow it will go deep into the dealings of the foundry concern with the city and incidentally will pave the way for the tn testlgation of the city's dealings with the Chicago fire appliance company the mc lamghlln building material company and the standard oil company the cltiiens association has sent its re port to the state's attorney it shows how the city has paid out nearly twice as much as it should have paid for cast ings am friends of the mayor it 1 noted that all the concerns that are at present under are or are to be under are in connection with evasions of the law in the matter of letting con tracts or making purchases have in their makeup some friend or friends of mayor busse t a oummlngs head of the t a cum mlcgg foundry company is the close friend of the mayor who admitted that much yesterday the Chicago fire appliance company is composed of harry smith the mayor's personal secretary and james connery brother of the mayor's bosom friend john t connery who is also one of the big rhlefs of the city fuel company the mclaughlin building material com pany named after state representative â– boss john j mclaughlin is financially backed by boss roger c sullivan the mayor's personal friend and political bed fellow and has in its directorate former representative ben m mitchell his brother joseph mitchell and william kells all political servants of roger sul livan the city fuel company has a combine of political and financial influence most of which was exerted in behalf of busse for mayor it began to show its power shortly after busse's election among the officers are john t onnery busse's political ally of ihe democratic faith george goetz fred w fpham and niany others who call the mayor fred and are ejassed as his intimates the Chicago fire appliance company which came into being shortly after the mayor was elected has done approximately sioo.ooo worth of business with the city this concern buys anything from pencils oil and grease to brick and coal for the municipality its deals are all in small sums and the most frequent visitors to the cl i comptroller's office are it officers the mclaughlin building material c4im parv sprang into being shortly after busse's election and the concern has thrived as a brokerage house for the pur and supply of sand brick grave limestone screenings stone and other ma terials used in public construction citizens association steps in the citizens association entered the cummings investigation by sending the mer riam commission and the state's attor ney's office copies of a report made to the executive committee of the association yesterday which shows the alleged viola tions of the law by city officials in deal ing with the cummings concern the report ie in minute derail and shows how much the city has paid out to the firm as well as how much has been lost to the municipality through the system of buy ing direct from this one concern instead of through competitive bidding after showing how the price of valve basin cov ers and kindred articles used by the city suddenly increased from 26 a ton to as high as 45 the report goes on to state for reasons best known to himself the commissioner of public works failed to enter loto any contract with the cum mings foundry company but in direct vio lation of law proceeded to purchase the castings above mentioned from the cum mings foundry company without any con tract and at prices amazingly higher than those which that concern had specified iu its bids or which had been paid bv the city in previous years y that the commissioner of public works lost no time in ordering castings from the cummings foundry company without inv contract is shown by five l-ii â€ž? Â«"â– .. a-st s igw " wfainoun t to 1,d68.20 for hydrant covers "^ uulm -Â» these bills which were aiinrm-Â«,i k paul redieske deputy commis^wr z public works and by city egi nee eric son were for 175 hydrant covers h â€ž_ Â«) t soo pounds at gfi a ton nsp f e f the fact that the bid of the cummin foundry company opened less than three weeks before that date specified s-'a-c per ton as the price for which that com pany was willing to supply hydrant cove on may 20 idos the city paid bills of curious spectators and mourners held back from mine entrance iwaitjfi/g wo to .Â£_. of v/v prtorogf?fiphÂ£f mrs eddy's word ends war in church peace message from leader causes followers of mrs stetson to desert new york nov is at the eleventh hour when the rival factions of the first church of christ scientist were on the point of causing a hopeless schism of the church mrs eddy intervened and with a message of peace united the congregation more completely than it had been in seven years the meeting this afternoon was ad journed upon the reading of her letter to the trustees advising them to abide by the decision of the boston board at its close women their eyes filled with tears leaned over the backs of the pews and clasped the hands of those whom they had sur veyed coldly and even snubbed when they entered the church so revered is the word of the aged founder of christian science that the stanchest followers of mrs stetson have deserted the deposed leader deserts deposed leader even if mrs stet_Â»a is excommunicated at the end of the trial now going on in boston we will loyally accept the decision of the board of directors said edwin f hatfield chairman of the board of trustees of the first church heretofore he had been one of the most valiant defenders and friends of mrs stetson the uprising against the boston directorate which looked so formidable a month ago has collapsed and the closest friends of mrs stetson hope that she will acknowledge the error of her teachings a brief message from mary baker glover eddy put nn end to the great meeting in two minutes this afternoon the meeting had convened to consider the censure of first reader virgil o strickler for disloyalty to mrs stetson when the meeting opened chairman hatfield of the board of trustees an nounced mrs eddy's message this afternoon the board of trustees of this church received a communication from mrs eddy which i now read brookline mass nov 13 1909 to the board of trustees first church of christ scientist new york city beloved brethren in consideration of the present momentous question at issue with the first church of christ scientist new york city i am con bti lined lo say if i can settle this larch's difficulty amicably by n few rot 1 as raanj btude-ts think i can 1 herewj eheerfally subscribe these words of love my beloved brethren in the i church of christ scientist xew york city t advise you with all my soul to support the directors of the mother church and to unite with those in your church who are supporting the mother church directors abide in fellowship with and obedience to the mother church and in this way god will bless you and prosper you this i know for he has proved it to me forty years in succession lovingly yours mary baker eddy it is needless to say continued mr hatflelij that all the members of the board of trustees lovingly and obediently receive the word of mrs eddy mr hatfield resumed his seat and mr strickler advanced to the edge of the plat form a motion to adjourn this meeting in in order said mr strickler the motion was made and carried chairman hatfield when asked about the charges against first reader strickler said that these charges were in effect dismissed by the act of the congregation to-day urges cheaper schools irion wants them and architect snys they're impossible general pruning ot contracts and bills for constructing chicago's schools a de mand for which has caused wordy en counters at several committee meetings yesterciay appeared likely to cause con siderable more trouble president alfred k urion of the board of education returned to his olfice after inspecting a number of schools iu wash ington philadelphia xew york and bos ton the special object of inquiry being as to cost while mr prion would sa nothing concerning the cost of these build ings he announced his determination to have good school buildings at lower prices in Chicago at the smine time architect dwight h perkins gave out a defense in which he said that little or no saving could be made in the construction of buildings here deneen appeals for funds fo aid stricken cpringfield 111 jfov 15 q governor deneen this after noon issued the following ap peal for aid for the families of the miners at cherry 111 a terrible disaster has occurred in the mine of the st paul coal company at cherry bureau county 111 the number involved in the disaster is not definitely known but sufficient is known to indicate tfiat it is probably the worst in the history of the state and one of the worst that has ever occurred rescue work is not completed but already it is known that so many miners have met their death in this awful catastrophe that the community is not able to cope with the situation i therefore ask the well-dis posed people of every state to con tribute llherally to the relief of those dependent upon the miners who have been injured or lost their lives in this terrible dis aster contributions should be for warded to mr orson smith presi dent of the merchants loan and . trust company 135 adams street Chicago who is treasurer of the Illinois branch of the national red cross society through which funds can be most quickly dis tribuiied to be of greatest benefit con tributions should be sent at once youth drinks acid holding girl's hand bids sweetheart good night after making up quarrel then attempts suicide while harry brower eighteen years old shook hands with his seventeen-year-old sweetheart julia freed on the front porch of her home at s7ll buffalo avenue last night he reached into a coat pocket with his left hand drew forth a small bottle of carbolic acid uncorked it with his lingers and drank a part of the acid lie will recover this almost tragic conclusion to o boy and gill's evening together was the sequel of a quarrel which grew out of young brower's sending a postcard to his youth ful sweetheart on which was printed l.iiv is just one thing after an other on the cord brower in jesting mood wrote you are nothing but a kid and don't know it miss freed indignant wrote a reprimand brower who lives nt solo manislee avenue and who is em ployed at gary ind hurried to the freed home the iirsr opportunity he had both thought ike quarrel had terminated and both were happy young brower however brooded over what had happened and nursing a fe.tr that perhaps his sweetheart had not for l'ivcn bin bought the acid at gary when he called pa miss freed la t night he earried the deadly drug in a convenient pocket he and miss freed went out for a time visiting a nickel theater on their return brower remained for a short time ai the freed home when he started to go miss freed accompanied him to the front pttrch he was bidding her good nigat when he drank the acid miss freed sounded an alarm and a rail was sent for au ambulance dr p brandon in charge of the south Chicago ambulance worked heroically with bro.ver and probably saved the young man's life he was taken to the south Chicago hos pital v here it was said last night that ne would get well snow heads for Chicago iÂ«y arrive tu-morron according in lie official i'orocast the first snow of the season is on the way already it has reached minneapolis and st paul coming all toe way from (>!â€¢ appetle id ir will swoop dawn on ' Chicago tomorrow tlmt is if the follow ing which is the official weather forecast : is true itain tuesday yvednesilay prob ably rain or snow the mercury for a time yesterday stood below the freezing point at ol degrees v carnegie to stamp out pellagra now steel king runs close race with oil king's attempt to save south new york nov 15 â€” an intimation has come to the national health officials at washington that andrew carnegie is about to give an enormous sum for a campaign of eradfeation against pellagra the mys terious lombardy leprosy which has ap peared recently in alabama louisiana and mississippi and frightened tlie entire south while there has been no definite an nouncement it is understood that mr car negie's contribution will equal he million dollars john d rockefeller has given for the eradication of the hookworm uncin rlasis in the south the spread of pel gra is said to be equally as grejit as that â– ' the bookworm nnd the danger to the section affected even greater mr carnegii lias a positive rule against discussing any of 1 if benefactions in ad vance this rule prevented the examiner correspondent from securing any 0.-via tlou of the reported million dollar off or pellagra to-day mr carnegie is known to have been long interested in the problems of the south he has an estate on the florida coast where he usually spends part of the winter and through these visits is thor oughly in touch with the section afflicted by the mysterious disease which is be lieved to be caused by eating damaged corn a number of men and womeu with mill ions have taken up the light agaiust tuber culosis as is indicated by the promised gifts of mrs russell sage mrs wiliiam k vanderbilt nathan straus and others mr rockefeller ha9 provided ample funds for the hookworm's eradication but until mr carnej^e's proposal no one of large means had taken up the cudgels against pellagra many prominent meu iu the south be lieve there is more danger from pellagra than from the hookworm colonel e j watson commissioner of agriculture of north carolina has said while we regard mr rockefeller's princely gift for the eradication of the hookworm at its true value we sav 000 000 for the battle against the disease pel lagra would be far more valuable the donation which mr carnegie is con sidering will be a substantial answer to a general plea from the south haskell must face court jnilge overrules demurrer to l.nnd fraud indictment chickasha okln nov 10.-judge john a marshall of the federal court to day overruled the demurrer filed by gov ernor charles x haskell and five other oklahoma ns to indictments charging them with fraudulently securing from the gov erhment title to a large number of town lots in muskogee okla the defendants were ordered to appear for trial saturday morning at chickasha gompers motion for stay of mandate is denied court of appeals refuses to put off contempt matter until january 2 federation grills steel trust washington d c nov 15 the court of appeals of the district of colum bia to-day denied an application made by counsel for samuel gompers john mitchell and frank morrison of the american fed eration of labor sentenced to jail for con tempt for a stay in the issuance of the mandate to the supreme court of the dis trict of columbia until january 2 1010 unless notice of au appeal is given before next friday night the mandate will be handed down hÂ£xt saturday toronto out nov 15 president gompers of the american federation of labor declined to-day to discuss the action of the philadelphia central labor union favoring a two weeks general strike throughout the country as a protest agaiust the imprisonment of gompers mitchell and morrison for contempt of court the strike to begin on the day the labor leadens are imprisoned vice president john mitchell said 1 do not think that the officers of interna tlonal unions or the delegates to this con vention would favor such a strike as is proposed by our good friends in philadel phia with a unanimous chorus of ayes the american federation of labor to-day adopt ed a resolution declaring the united states steel corporation to be the most formid able nd aggressive enemy with which the org uized labor movement has to con tend an recommending that a meeting be held dm ng the present convention of the executivi officers of all organizations represented and the president and secretary of the federate n of labor t outline a campaign of organisation among the em ployes of the steel ci rporatlon ana devise ways and means to mtrsc tho iight against it more effective copper kings conferring iwas-nntes avrnnttiiife hetn is of new billion-dollar trns _* new york nov 15 a1l the g at cop per magnates of america were represented to-day personally or by proxy at ( infer ences iu which details of the new bi ion dollar corporation to control the eoppi in dustry are being beaten out one report to-day was that the mechan ics national bank which has just ab sorbed the national copper hank would participate in the financing with the na tional city bank and the first national bank under j p morgan's direction c l warriner indicted former big four ttficial will be arraigned to-da cincinnati 0 nov 15 the grand jury to-day returned an indictment against charles l warriner charging him with the embez*:l<_neiit of 504.000 from the big four railroad he will be arraigned to morrow morning when he will be asked to give another bond probably for a larger j amount mrs scott durand finds baby in yard cries of tire infant hidden i-n j basket attract her at tention when mrs scott durand of lake bluff walked out'on her front porch early yes terday morning she beard a sound emauat j ing from a basket which seemed to have been carelessly thrown to one side , mrs durand has a pet sheep a pet goat and half a dozen dogs but the sound was i so much different than she had expected to hear coming from any of these that she \ went over and investigated on top of the basket was a sheet she pulled this down \ and revealed a kicking sprawling bnby girl apparently about seven months old the infant was well clothed but there were no marks on it to indicate where it had come from it had evidently been left i on the front porch during the night come here quick cried mrs durand i to her little son jack here's a baby sis 1 ter for you jack ran out on the porch and looked the new arrival over say mother he cried in glee let's | keep it all right returned mrs durand but what shall we call it why ginger ale returned jack that's no name said his mother yes it is replied jack it is the same as that little girl i^vas playing with yes-i terday oh yon mean virginia said mrs du [ rand meanwhile mrs durand had ordered her maid to take the baby into the bouse and give it a good meal of crab tree milk | when seen yesterday afternoon mrs dn-1 rand said i intend to keep the baby and educate her and make her one of ihe family it's funny how it was left here without auy i of the dogs barking or without the persou j who did it making a noise i suppose whoever did leave it knows what an interest i take in children and | felt sure that if it fell into my hands i i woi-.id receive good care deneen clears sheriff tell davis of cairo be is ot to ; 1:1111 for lynching t i mho 111 nov 10 governor deneen | will nol remove sheriff frank e davis : ol cilrp frout office the governor said as ! much to the sheriff over the long distance i telephone to-day he also said he believed i the sid-iii need every effort at his com j maud to protect his prisoners the state : militia ins been withdrawn from cairo i companies h and g leaving a 11 o'clock li while ci npany k the local company was i relieved this afternoon tlie siili>4ms will j uot reopen until to-morrow hew fire in mine ends list hope of rescue entrance sealed again after men with oxygen helmets descend and report seeing only heaped lifeless forms death list may exceed 500 says an official â™¦ _____________ hose dragged ten times to bottom of main shaft fails to work fan only starts flames anew hoist was not used below 380-foot level only means of ascent from 500-foot tunnel was lad der unions send 10,000 to relief fund herry iu nov it nothing llf lives in the st ' paul mine - the jj shafts and drifts were partly l explored to-day by men wear ing oxygen helmets they sav great piles of bodies b_t were unable to re move them the unsealing of the main entrance however caused the fire to flare up again in the miles of soft coal tunnel to-night the air-tight cover is over the opening again and hope is dead even in the breasts of the dazed praying women who keep alight the front-room lamps in the rows of cottages carbonic acid gas is to b pumji ' under high pressure into the mine for the purpose of stifling the flames for the same reason that fire would cease burning in an atmosphere of carbonic acid gas a human being would suffo cate the people of cherry know that the proposal to pump the gas into the mine is but one more blow striking hope that already was prostrate few of 585 men escaped and with this practical certainty that the mine is one vast catacomb comes the fear that earlier reports of the number of victims may have been too small it is now regarded as probable that the number of dead will exceed 500 the official statements issued to day said the victims numbered 310 on saturday night following the awful entrapping of the , men it was announced that 484 had oeen caught in the depths a house to house canvass to-day resulted in the aiames of 256 men and boys known t-i he v ave mines being listed but the payrolls show that there were 33.s in the mine when death began to riot there and the payrolls contain the names only of day laborers w tv taylor general superintendent of the mine admits a fear that the dead may exceed 400 and a high official of the mine who is in a position to know the facts said to-day that there were 5sn men of the morning shift in the min and preparing to quit work when the fire broke out only a few cagefuls were taken up to safety dead strewn at cage door it was at the cage door that most of the dead were strewn the exploring party reported to-day after a descent into the gloomy smoke-choked death chambers clad in flre-proof garmenls it will be twenty-four hours ho ever before one of hose bodies can be brought up for the white-faced women to look at and try to identify it will take that long experts say to quench and stifle the flcimes which burst forth again to-day when it was hoped and believed that the are had burned itself out and the exploring party which saw the strewn dead â€” probably 100 bodies also heard in the inky distance the crash and rumble of timbers and earth the sounds indicated to the trained ears of the explorers that cave-ins v.rf going on and that the pick and shov ! would be needed to uncover many of the bodies of those who driven baci from the elevator shaft had tried to save themselves by flight into the blind corridors to-night fire n_ines are on th ground ready io pump water into tb mine if it is anaeated to-morrow thl apparatus came from spring val'c la salle and princeton men also were sent thus far there have ioen two funer t continued on 6th page 4th column pon't give it away s exchange anything you don't need yxa r something you want or sell it is 1 & rough a fe j 3arter and exchange ad ij jjjjfc , read the ads to-day in the classified liyf columns *$. â€” Â» 3â€”w i ' hiiiÂ»cimÂ«uÂ«Â»i mmmm^ej-y l weather forecast ffi f Chicago and vicinity â€” rain g^a \ tussday wednesday probably rain \- j i j or snow not much change in tern if'jw jfjm perature increasing easterly winds Â«Â»

Chicago examiner price one cent delivered by carrier 30 cents per month vol vii no 283 a m tuesday november 16 16 pages wayman asked to act in city graft by citizens association charges filed with state's attorney and the merriam committee probe for all purchases friends of administration in nearly all the concerns sell ing to municipality following the charge by the citizens association that the price of castings had been increased to the city by nearly 83 per cent since the t a cummings foun dry company came to be recognized as the favored concern for the sale of such materials to the city and that the com pany reaped amazingly high profits in consequence of its monopoly demand for every paper and voucher touching on the connection of the cummings company with the city was made on the city pur chasing agent william a coleman and on city comptroller wilson by the mer riim commission yesterday when the commission reconvenes to morrow it will go deep into the dealings of the foundry concern with the city and incidentally will pave the way for the tn testlgation of the city's dealings with the Chicago fire appliance company the mc lamghlln building material company and the standard oil company the cltiiens association has sent its re port to the state's attorney it shows how the city has paid out nearly twice as much as it should have paid for cast ings am friends of the mayor it 1 noted that all the concerns that are at present under are or are to be under are in connection with evasions of the law in the matter of letting con tracts or making purchases have in their makeup some friend or friends of mayor busse t a oummlngs head of the t a cum mlcgg foundry company is the close friend of the mayor who admitted that much yesterday the Chicago fire appliance company is composed of harry smith the mayor's personal secretary and james connery brother of the mayor's bosom friend john t connery who is also one of the big rhlefs of the city fuel company the mclaughlin building material com pany named after state representative â– boss john j mclaughlin is financially backed by boss roger c sullivan the mayor's personal friend and political bed fellow and has in its directorate former representative ben m mitchell his brother joseph mitchell and william kells all political servants of roger sul livan the city fuel company has a combine of political and financial influence most of which was exerted in behalf of busse for mayor it began to show its power shortly after busse's election among the officers are john t onnery busse's political ally of ihe democratic faith george goetz fred w fpham and niany others who call the mayor fred and are ejassed as his intimates the Chicago fire appliance company which came into being shortly after the mayor was elected has done approximately sioo.ooo worth of business with the city this concern buys anything from pencils oil and grease to brick and coal for the municipality its deals are all in small sums and the most frequent visitors to the cl i comptroller's office are it officers the mclaughlin building material c4im parv sprang into being shortly after busse's election and the concern has thrived as a brokerage house for the pur and supply of sand brick grave limestone screenings stone and other ma terials used in public construction citizens association steps in the citizens association entered the cummings investigation by sending the mer riam commission and the state's attor ney's office copies of a report made to the executive committee of the association yesterday which shows the alleged viola tions of the law by city officials in deal ing with the cummings concern the report ie in minute derail and shows how much the city has paid out to the firm as well as how much has been lost to the municipality through the system of buy ing direct from this one concern instead of through competitive bidding after showing how the price of valve basin cov ers and kindred articles used by the city suddenly increased from 26 a ton to as high as 45 the report goes on to state for reasons best known to himself the commissioner of public works failed to enter loto any contract with the cum mings foundry company but in direct vio lation of law proceeded to purchase the castings above mentioned from the cum mings foundry company without any con tract and at prices amazingly higher than those which that concern had specified iu its bids or which had been paid bv the city in previous years y that the commissioner of public works lost no time in ordering castings from the cummings foundry company without inv contract is shown by five l-ii â€ž? Â«"â– .. a-st s igw " wfainoun t to 1,d68.20 for hydrant covers "^ uulm -Â» these bills which were aiinrm-Â«,i k paul redieske deputy commis^wr z public works and by city egi nee eric son were for 175 hydrant covers h â€ž_ Â«) t soo pounds at gfi a ton nsp f e f the fact that the bid of the cummin foundry company opened less than three weeks before that date specified s-'a-c per ton as the price for which that com pany was willing to supply hydrant cove on may 20 idos the city paid bills of curious spectators and mourners held back from mine entrance iwaitjfi/g wo to .Â£_. of v/v prtorogf?fiphÂ£f mrs eddy's word ends war in church peace message from leader causes followers of mrs stetson to desert new york nov is at the eleventh hour when the rival factions of the first church of christ scientist were on the point of causing a hopeless schism of the church mrs eddy intervened and with a message of peace united the congregation more completely than it had been in seven years the meeting this afternoon was ad journed upon the reading of her letter to the trustees advising them to abide by the decision of the boston board at its close women their eyes filled with tears leaned over the backs of the pews and clasped the hands of those whom they had sur veyed coldly and even snubbed when they entered the church so revered is the word of the aged founder of christian science that the stanchest followers of mrs stetson have deserted the deposed leader deserts deposed leader even if mrs stet_Â»a is excommunicated at the end of the trial now going on in boston we will loyally accept the decision of the board of directors said edwin f hatfield chairman of the board of trustees of the first church heretofore he had been one of the most valiant defenders and friends of mrs stetson the uprising against the boston directorate which looked so formidable a month ago has collapsed and the closest friends of mrs stetson hope that she will acknowledge the error of her teachings a brief message from mary baker glover eddy put nn end to the great meeting in two minutes this afternoon the meeting had convened to consider the censure of first reader virgil o strickler for disloyalty to mrs stetson when the meeting opened chairman hatfield of the board of trustees an nounced mrs eddy's message this afternoon the board of trustees of this church received a communication from mrs eddy which i now read brookline mass nov 13 1909 to the board of trustees first church of christ scientist new york city beloved brethren in consideration of the present momentous question at issue with the first church of christ scientist new york city i am con bti lined lo say if i can settle this larch's difficulty amicably by n few rot 1 as raanj btude-ts think i can 1 herewj eheerfally subscribe these words of love my beloved brethren in the i church of christ scientist xew york city t advise you with all my soul to support the directors of the mother church and to unite with those in your church who are supporting the mother church directors abide in fellowship with and obedience to the mother church and in this way god will bless you and prosper you this i know for he has proved it to me forty years in succession lovingly yours mary baker eddy it is needless to say continued mr hatflelij that all the members of the board of trustees lovingly and obediently receive the word of mrs eddy mr hatfield resumed his seat and mr strickler advanced to the edge of the plat form a motion to adjourn this meeting in in order said mr strickler the motion was made and carried chairman hatfield when asked about the charges against first reader strickler said that these charges were in effect dismissed by the act of the congregation to-day urges cheaper schools irion wants them and architect snys they're impossible general pruning ot contracts and bills for constructing chicago's schools a de mand for which has caused wordy en counters at several committee meetings yesterciay appeared likely to cause con siderable more trouble president alfred k urion of the board of education returned to his olfice after inspecting a number of schools iu wash ington philadelphia xew york and bos ton the special object of inquiry being as to cost while mr prion would sa nothing concerning the cost of these build ings he announced his determination to have good school buildings at lower prices in Chicago at the smine time architect dwight h perkins gave out a defense in which he said that little or no saving could be made in the construction of buildings here deneen appeals for funds fo aid stricken cpringfield 111 jfov 15 q governor deneen this after noon issued the following ap peal for aid for the families of the miners at cherry 111 a terrible disaster has occurred in the mine of the st paul coal company at cherry bureau county 111 the number involved in the disaster is not definitely known but sufficient is known to indicate tfiat it is probably the worst in the history of the state and one of the worst that has ever occurred rescue work is not completed but already it is known that so many miners have met their death in this awful catastrophe that the community is not able to cope with the situation i therefore ask the well-dis posed people of every state to con tribute llherally to the relief of those dependent upon the miners who have been injured or lost their lives in this terrible dis aster contributions should be for warded to mr orson smith presi dent of the merchants loan and . trust company 135 adams street Chicago who is treasurer of the Illinois branch of the national red cross society through which funds can be most quickly dis tribuiied to be of greatest benefit con tributions should be sent at once youth drinks acid holding girl's hand bids sweetheart good night after making up quarrel then attempts suicide while harry brower eighteen years old shook hands with his seventeen-year-old sweetheart julia freed on the front porch of her home at s7ll buffalo avenue last night he reached into a coat pocket with his left hand drew forth a small bottle of carbolic acid uncorked it with his lingers and drank a part of the acid lie will recover this almost tragic conclusion to o boy and gill's evening together was the sequel of a quarrel which grew out of young brower's sending a postcard to his youth ful sweetheart on which was printed l.iiv is just one thing after an other on the cord brower in jesting mood wrote you are nothing but a kid and don't know it miss freed indignant wrote a reprimand brower who lives nt solo manislee avenue and who is em ployed at gary ind hurried to the freed home the iirsr opportunity he had both thought ike quarrel had terminated and both were happy young brower however brooded over what had happened and nursing a fe.tr that perhaps his sweetheart had not for l'ivcn bin bought the acid at gary when he called pa miss freed la t night he earried the deadly drug in a convenient pocket he and miss freed went out for a time visiting a nickel theater on their return brower remained for a short time ai the freed home when he started to go miss freed accompanied him to the front pttrch he was bidding her good nigat when he drank the acid miss freed sounded an alarm and a rail was sent for au ambulance dr p brandon in charge of the south Chicago ambulance worked heroically with bro.ver and probably saved the young man's life he was taken to the south Chicago hos pital v here it was said last night that ne would get well snow heads for Chicago iÂ«y arrive tu-morron according in lie official i'orocast the first snow of the season is on the way already it has reached minneapolis and st paul coming all toe way from (>!â€¢ appetle id ir will swoop dawn on ' Chicago tomorrow tlmt is if the follow ing which is the official weather forecast : is true itain tuesday yvednesilay prob ably rain or snow the mercury for a time yesterday stood below the freezing point at ol degrees v carnegie to stamp out pellagra now steel king runs close race with oil king's attempt to save south new york nov 15 â€” an intimation has come to the national health officials at washington that andrew carnegie is about to give an enormous sum for a campaign of eradfeation against pellagra the mys terious lombardy leprosy which has ap peared recently in alabama louisiana and mississippi and frightened tlie entire south while there has been no definite an nouncement it is understood that mr car negie's contribution will equal he million dollars john d rockefeller has given for the eradication of the hookworm uncin rlasis in the south the spread of pel gra is said to be equally as grejit as that â– ' the bookworm nnd the danger to the section affected even greater mr carnegii lias a positive rule against discussing any of 1 if benefactions in ad vance this rule prevented the examiner correspondent from securing any 0.-via tlou of the reported million dollar off or pellagra to-day mr carnegie is known to have been long interested in the problems of the south he has an estate on the florida coast where he usually spends part of the winter and through these visits is thor oughly in touch with the section afflicted by the mysterious disease which is be lieved to be caused by eating damaged corn a number of men and womeu with mill ions have taken up the light agaiust tuber culosis as is indicated by the promised gifts of mrs russell sage mrs wiliiam k vanderbilt nathan straus and others mr rockefeller ha9 provided ample funds for the hookworm's eradication but until mr carnej^e's proposal no one of large means had taken up the cudgels against pellagra many prominent meu iu the south be lieve there is more danger from pellagra than from the hookworm colonel e j watson commissioner of agriculture of north carolina has said while we regard mr rockefeller's princely gift for the eradication of the hookworm at its true value we sav 000 000 for the battle against the disease pel lagra would be far more valuable the donation which mr carnegie is con sidering will be a substantial answer to a general plea from the south haskell must face court jnilge overrules demurrer to l.nnd fraud indictment chickasha okln nov 10.-judge john a marshall of the federal court to day overruled the demurrer filed by gov ernor charles x haskell and five other oklahoma ns to indictments charging them with fraudulently securing from the gov erhment title to a large number of town lots in muskogee okla the defendants were ordered to appear for trial saturday morning at chickasha gompers motion for stay of mandate is denied court of appeals refuses to put off contempt matter until january 2 federation grills steel trust washington d c nov 15 the court of appeals of the district of colum bia to-day denied an application made by counsel for samuel gompers john mitchell and frank morrison of the american fed eration of labor sentenced to jail for con tempt for a stay in the issuance of the mandate to the supreme court of the dis trict of columbia until january 2 1010 unless notice of au appeal is given before next friday night the mandate will be handed down hÂ£xt saturday toronto out nov 15 president gompers of the american federation of labor declined to-day to discuss the action of the philadelphia central labor union favoring a two weeks general strike throughout the country as a protest agaiust the imprisonment of gompers mitchell and morrison for contempt of court the strike to begin on the day the labor leadens are imprisoned vice president john mitchell said 1 do not think that the officers of interna tlonal unions or the delegates to this con vention would favor such a strike as is proposed by our good friends in philadel phia with a unanimous chorus of ayes the american federation of labor to-day adopt ed a resolution declaring the united states steel corporation to be the most formid able nd aggressive enemy with which the org uized labor movement has to con tend an recommending that a meeting be held dm ng the present convention of the executivi officers of all organizations represented and the president and secretary of the federate n of labor t outline a campaign of organisation among the em ployes of the steel ci rporatlon ana devise ways and means to mtrsc tho iight against it more effective copper kings conferring iwas-nntes avrnnttiiife hetn is of new billion-dollar trns _* new york nov 15 a1l the g at cop per magnates of america were represented to-day personally or by proxy at ( infer ences iu which details of the new bi ion dollar corporation to control the eoppi in dustry are being beaten out one report to-day was that the mechan ics national bank which has just ab sorbed the national copper hank would participate in the financing with the na tional city bank and the first national bank under j p morgan's direction c l warriner indicted former big four ttficial will be arraigned to-da cincinnati 0 nov 15 the grand jury to-day returned an indictment against charles l warriner charging him with the embez*:l4ms will j uot reopen until to-morrow hew fire in mine ends list hope of rescue entrance sealed again after men with oxygen helmets descend and report seeing only heaped lifeless forms death list may exceed 500 says an official â™¦ _____________ hose dragged ten times to bottom of main shaft fails to work fan only starts flames anew hoist was not used below 380-foot level only means of ascent from 500-foot tunnel was lad der unions send 10,000 to relief fund herry iu nov it nothing llf lives in the st ' paul mine - the jj shafts and drifts were partly l explored to-day by men wear ing oxygen helmets they sav great piles of bodies b_t were unable to re move them the unsealing of the main entrance however caused the fire to flare up again in the miles of soft coal tunnel to-night the air-tight cover is over the opening again and hope is dead even in the breasts of the dazed praying women who keep alight the front-room lamps in the rows of cottages carbonic acid gas is to b pumji ' under high pressure into the mine for the purpose of stifling the flames for the same reason that fire would cease burning in an atmosphere of carbonic acid gas a human being would suffo cate the people of cherry know that the proposal to pump the gas into the mine is but one more blow striking hope that already was prostrate few of 585 men escaped and with this practical certainty that the mine is one vast catacomb comes the fear that earlier reports of the number of victims may have been too small it is now regarded as probable that the number of dead will exceed 500 the official statements issued to day said the victims numbered 310 on saturday night following the awful entrapping of the , men it was announced that 484 had oeen caught in the depths a house to house canvass to-day resulted in the aiames of 256 men and boys known t-i he v ave mines being listed but the payrolls show that there were 33.s in the mine when death began to riot there and the payrolls contain the names only of day laborers w tv taylor general superintendent of the mine admits a fear that the dead may exceed 400 and a high official of the mine who is in a position to know the facts said to-day that there were 5sn men of the morning shift in the min and preparing to quit work when the fire broke out only a few cagefuls were taken up to safety dead strewn at cage door it was at the cage door that most of the dead were strewn the exploring party reported to-day after a descent into the gloomy smoke-choked death chambers clad in flre-proof garmenls it will be twenty-four hours ho ever before one of hose bodies can be brought up for the white-faced women to look at and try to identify it will take that long experts say to quench and stifle the flcimes which burst forth again to-day when it was hoped and believed that the are had burned itself out and the exploring party which saw the strewn dead â€” probably 100 bodies also heard in the inky distance the crash and rumble of timbers and earth the sounds indicated to the trained ears of the explorers that cave-ins v.rf going on and that the pick and shov ! would be needed to uncover many of the bodies of those who driven baci from the elevator shaft had tried to save themselves by flight into the blind corridors to-night fire n_ines are on th ground ready io pump water into tb mine if it is anaeated to-morrow thl apparatus came from spring val'c la salle and princeton men also were sent thus far there have ioen two funer t continued on 6th page 4th column pon't give it away s exchange anything you don't need yxa r something you want or sell it is 1 & rough a fe j 3arter and exchange ad ij jjjjfc , read the ads to-day in the classified liyf columns *$. â€” Â» 3â€”w i ' hiiiÂ»cimÂ«uÂ«Â»i mmmm^ej-y l weather forecast ffi f Chicago and vicinity â€” rain g^a \ tussday wednesday probably rain \- j i j or snow not much change in tern if'jw jfjm perature increasing 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